Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) …why? Because the family threw it on. Not usually into musicals but this one had its moments. Want a wife? Go to town and kidnap yourself one !! 
Good clean family fun.
[quote=“Pacificador, post:8581, topic:1923”]Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) …why? Because the family threw it on. Not usually into musicals but this one had its moments. Want a wife? Go to town and kidnap yourself one !!
Good clean family fun. [/quote]
Kidnapping wives clean fun? Dear me.
Fine film, by the way. It’s a favorite of both Hill and spencer, and the barn scene has influenced the first Trinity movie.
Saw 2 Butch Cassidy depictions sorta back-to-back:
Blackthorn, 2011… Beautifully filmed in Bolivia, Sam Sheperd is Cassidy, now known as Jim Blackthorn. -A popular horse-breeder who decides to head back to the US in the 1920’s. But he’s ambushed by a silvermine-robber who’s being pursued by the mine-owners’ hired-guns. Some intriguing plot-twists as they flee across the Bolivian landscape. Stephen Rae co-stars as a rum-sodden Pinkerton Agent 'n town-hobo. Rewarding fun.
The Maverick Queen, 1956… I always thought it was about a riverboat. But it’s the name of Barbara Stanwyck’s Wyoming gambling-saloon. She’s Kit; a member of Butch Cassidy’s gang who clues them into important cattle-and-money shipments. Barry Sullivan is an undercover Pinkerton Agent who infiltrates the gang and sets intriguing plot-twists in motion. Beautifully filmed as-well. Impeccably scripted.
Maverick with Gibson is about a riverboat
Berberian Sound Studio - I watched this tonight and really enjoyed it.
Gilderoy is a sound engineer who leaves England to do a sound job on a film in Italy. It turns out to be a bit too intense for the timid mild mannered Gilderoy and you gradually see him psychologically change.
The opening credits (of the film they are working on) is fantastic, with a Morricone/Nicolai style soundtrack.
Queens of Evil.
A very young looking Ray Lovelock stars as a hippy style dude going across country on his motorcycle. He has a strange incident on the road and then comes across a house in the woods. He is invited to stay a while by the three women living there. Not much happens besides Ray enjoying himself, but there is loads of atmosphere to the film. But there is a point you know something bad will happen, and was not expecting it when it came in this interesting brew of a film.
[quote=“Yodlaf Peterson, post:8585, topic:1923”]Berberian Sound Studio - I watched this tonight and really enjoyed it.
Gilderoy is a sound engineer who leaves England to do a sound job on a film in Italy. It turns out to be a bit too intense for the timid mild mannered Gilderoy and you gradually see him psychologically change.
The opening credits (of the film they are working on) is fantastic, with a Morricone/Nicolai style soundtrack.
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Heard very good things about this one. It’s on my list for the near future.
The Ghostwriter - Roman Polanski
Solid thriller. Maybe the best film of this once great director since Chinatown. 7/10
[quote=“Stanton, post:8588, topic:1923”]The Ghostwriter - Roman Polanski
Solid thriller. Maybe the best film of this once great director since Chinatown. 7/10[/quote]
Liked that a lot too. Especially Brosnan. I was never very fond of him as Bond, but he seems to get better with age. I didn’t like that final twist, by the way. These kind of thrillers always seem to have one superfluous twist. The procedure becomes rather predictable like this, it’s like the trick used in the Agatha Christie like thrillers, where the least likely suspect inevitably was the culprit.
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A Vietnamese action movie, set in the 1920s, when the country is under colonial French rule. The French have trained pro-western locals to fight the revolutionaries. Two of them are assigned to locate a mysterious revolutionary leader living in the mountains. When his daughter is captured, one of the two liberates her in order to gain her trust, but he starts having doubts about what he’s doing and slowly falls for the girl, and her father’s cause …
I’ve seen quite a few action movies from smaller Far Eastern countries lately (Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines) and those smaller industries are really doing a good job these days. This one is one of the best films in its type coming from there, and certainly one of the most exciting. Not only the story is well-constructed, but there are also several smaller set pieces that are very suspenseful. Basically it’s a war movie, but there’s quite a lot of martial arts action too, and it’s incredibly spectacular, with the two leads being experts in Muy Thai boxing as well as Tae Kwon do. There are only two minor drawbacks: one of the characters seems virtually indestructable, and there’s no explanation given for this particularity, and the version released on DVD internationally, is slightly cut; it doesn’t hurt the storytelling that much, but leads to a couple of awkward transitions.
Recommended
Yes, but at least this wasn’t a final twist which makes a joke of most what was before. And maybe they should have made something more out of the end, maybe the film shouldn’t have ended so early.
All in all it was all too normal for a present day thriller to make it something special. There’s nothing in it we haven’t seen a thousand times before. While every of Polanski’s 60s films was someting very special.
[size=12pt]The Eagle [/size] 2011 Kevin Macdonald
Another film I didn’t notice, until it pop up in a newspaper DVD collection (1€ plus the newspaper)
Not an especially bad film and I do enjoy watching this sort of modern day peplum based films.
The plot is very simple and could be adapted to any genre of actions films, we have seen these recover the lost honor stories many times before, and it’s based in events that are believe to take place at least partially.
In any case The Eagle must have been an easy fllm to make, taking advantage of the Highlands Scottish landscape and a few roman time costumes. The action scenes are well balance, but the mid section drags on a bit, and the ending for a film for men’s seemed just too happy.
Thinking about that, I don’t know if I should call it a film for men’s, or a film only with men’s, there’s not a female character , but there wasn’t one in Saving Private Ryan, so woman cannot fight in Roman period wars, there’s not even a tribal princess, or roman wife’s (no ladies flesh in this one).
The acting is what you expected, but Tatum seems a bit young for the part Roman Centurions, normally they came from the ranks, so reached leadership a bit older in life. I almost didn’t recognize Mark Strong in a Small but important part and we still have Donald Shuterland.
A competent and easy job from the director, in a straight to video way, and watching the film we can notice he’s a documentary expert.
Beside the mid section dragging on, there are other few drawbacks, like the cheesy melodramatic Celtic music, the film is far from being a drama, taken on a loan from Ridley Scott Gladiator, and Tatum somehow makes the film too modern, also the direct morality slave/master relation is so obvious it hurt the eye (or brain).
In historical terms, and that is always interesting to me, (kids today only learn history from movies not from books) there’s some liberties in the plot. The first it’s the 9th legion itself (it was initially formed in what’s now Spain), they were indeed defeated but not over the Adrian wall in Scotland but in the South of England. Also the seal people that we see in film looking like a native North American tribe, are also an invention, there’s no historical evidence of such tribes in the North of the British Islands. There’s little knowledge about the people and tribes that lived in Scotland before and after the Roman invasion, the so called Picts were tribes with Celtic origins or at least influence by those, but their origin its still kind of a mystery.
In conclusion a nice one to see on a Sunday, if you don’t too much about it, not as good as The 13th Warrior for instance
[quote=“Stanton, post:8591, topic:1923”]Yes, but at least this wasn’t a final twist which makes a joke of most what was before. And maybe they should have made something more out of the end, maybe the film shouldn’t have ended so early.
All in all it was all too normal for a present day thriller to make it something special. There’s nothing in it we haven’t seen a thousand times before. While every of Polanski’s 60s films was someting very special.[/quote]
Don’t know, never been a special fan of Polanski. He was better, and more original, in the beginning of his career, but was he as great as some thought he was? I don’t see it, but that might of course all be personal.
Anyway, I also liked Frantic, which was a relatively straightforward thriller too, so maybe he’s just good at these type of movies. After all Chinatown was a thriller too, and not that complex. I thought The Ghostwriter was better than Frantic, by the way. It’s just that ending, I’ve seen worse, but it ruined the experience a bit.
[quote=“ENNIOO, post:8586, topic:1923”]Queens of Evil.
A very young looking Ray Lovelock stars as a hippy style dude going across country on his motorcycle.[/quote]
A very young looking Ray Lovelock stars as a hippy style dude going across country in his car selling porno shots of his girlfriend 
in…
Oasis of Fear
As with others - Brothers Dorado and Mickey13 - I’ve been in the mood for something of the Giallo persuasion.
I’ve started dipping into my Shameless releases with OAF a couple of nights ago. Pretty good film, kept me intriqued as to what nastiness was gonna transpire. It’s not particularly violent, not very gialloish - just atmospheric, dreamily erotic and easily watchable.
Much more gialloish, and better for it, was last night’s offering… What Have They Done To Your Daughters.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very stylish giallo/piloziotteschi hybrid. Not so gory, but well acted and very entertaining. Recommended.
I’ve a few more of these yellow boxes to watch yet… 8)
Frantic was even more conventional. 6/10
Chinatown is special in every respect. A masterpiece which is incredibly filmed. Which I can’t say from every film Polanski made since.
[quote=“Reverend Danite, post:8594, topic:1923”]A very young looking Ray Lovelock stars as a hippy style dude going across country in his car selling porno shots of his girlfriend in…
Oasis of Fear[/quote]
Enjoyed that one aswell. Lovelock fitted in well in these type of films.
Vampire Killers, Rosemary’s Baby, Tenant. All masterpieces, I don’t care much for Polanski’s film’s from 80’s onward.
The Tenant is already one I don’t like that much, but I know many do.
[quote=“Mickey13, post:8568, topic:1923”]Death Proof (2007) by Quentin Tarantino.
But for Kurt Russell moments and some neatly done action sequences, it would have been a totally average flick. Sometimes funny, other times not, feels too talkative at times, but nonetheless it’s a good time passer. Didn’t hate it by any means, I was just expecting a little bit more. I found the first group of girls really likeable while the second one got on my nerves. And I don’t want Kurt Russell to lose. 5 or 6/10[/quote]
This is the only major Tarantino film I don’t like (although I loved it when Kurt Russell was in it - he’s just not in it enough). All the girls got on my nerves, but I think it was the language more than anything that was just too much after awhile.
Great one - love it…